Ubisoft's Skull and Bones Has a $120+ Million Budget, Former Project Manager Confirms

Skull and Bones, Ubisoft's troubled pirate sim, has a budget of more than $120 million, a former project manager has confirmed.

[CoNn3rB]

I would be impressed if this game wasn't delayed for multiple years so it's likely this budget is more of a stacking effect rather than what they actually had in mind

[robtion]

Game looked mediocre from the last trailer/reveal. It would be aided by deep character customisation. Being a pirate is about freedom. I want to be able to customise my character, ship, crew, etc in this kind of game and that seemed to be lacking from what I've seen.

[Yi-Long]

I’m pretty sure it has looked mediocre ever since the very first reveal, many years ago, when the general consensus from the gaming community pretty much boiled down to; “Wait!? It’s NOT Black Flag 2!? JUST the ship battling portions!? Why!? Who asked for this!?”

What a waste of money. They could have done a proper SP Beyond Good and Evil 2 game, and/or a new Rayman, or a new Splinter Cell, etc.

[just_looken]

I doubt its 120million more like 300-500 million

They rebooted rebuilt the game so many times and even made a whole studio for it under that govt deal.

[Knushwood Butt]

Isn't this an anonymous source rumor?

[potatoseal]

No there is a resume from a former project manager that states the budget. He's an Industry Person.

[isarai]

I seriously doubt that seeing as how you can't even do anything in foot except walk around the home hub. No sword combat, exploring islands, digging for treasure, etc.

R*s games are about 100mil and they are not even in the same league as a R* game.

[Tacoboto]

There's been a very long development period. Throw hundreds of people on something for a decade, your costs aren't gonna be light.

I don't think there's anyone around ready to say the budget on this game, whatever the real value is, was worth it

[BiggCMan]

Rockstar games are like 200 to 300 million lol. GTA 6 is likely going to be something like 500 million. You're way behind on game costs today.

[isarai]

There are no official numbers, the closest we got is we know the anual spending budget for take 2 was 1billion for projects the year GTAV was greenlit, and given everything else they released analyst report it may have cost anywhere between 137mil, so about a hundred mil like I said. Also a ton of that is for marketing, not actual development.

[TheColbertinator]

Sometimes development throw out barebones trailers and teasers to get the publishers to toss out money for the opportunity of a project. It is a good way to bring a studio's idea to fruition but is often a scam to greenlight vaporware projects where no solid results are ever produced.

[anast]

They will put all of that to make sure the game is the most heavily monetized thing we have ever seen.

[just_looken]

A ubi game doing that na never /s

Yeah its going to be bloated with mt's for sure.

[anast]

What bothers me the most about UBI is that they have extremely talented devs, but the force them to cheapen the games.

[potatoseal]

If this has a single player campaign and a platinum i can get mostly solo, then I might hop on board this ship.

[jznrpg]

I’m in the same boat.

[Inverno]

Bruh if this flops…

[banger88]

What a f***** waste of time and money. Should have done a sequel to Black Flag instead.